SteveA

Guess those are KC's City Connects. Never seen the hat logo before.

So cool, Cedric name-dropping the Polo Grounds.

Two other former Oriole players who also just had one or two seasons with the O's, passed away in the last week. Whitey Herzog, best known for his managing the Royals and Cardinals, died this week at 94. And Odell Jones, who pitched for the Orioles in 1986, died at 71.

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Gametime: 7:40 pm ET Forecast: 58 degrees, parlty cloudy Matchup: Dean Kremer (R) vs Alec Marsh (R) Lineups SS Gunnar Henderson L C Adley Rutschman S DH Ryan O'Hearn L RF Anthony Santander S 1B Ryan Mountcastle R CF Cedric Mullins L LF Colton Cowser L 3B Jordan Westburg R 2B Jackson Holliday L 3B Maikel Garcia R SS Bobby Witt R 1B Vinnie Pasquantino L C Salvador Perez R LF MJ Melendez L DH Nelson Velazquez R 2B Michael Massey L RF Hunter Renfroe R CF Kyle Isbel L Orioles Bench Austin Hays (R) Jorge Mateo (R) James McCann (R) Ramon Urias (R) Orioles Bullpen Available Keegan Akin (L) 0.1 IP, 3p Wednesday; 0.1 IP, 16p Monday Mike Baumann (R) 1.1 IP, 25p Tuesday Danny Coulombe (L) 0.2 IP, 10p Wednesday Craig Kimbrel (R) 1.0 IP, 12p Wednesday; 1.0 IP, 13p Monday; 1.0 IP, 21p Sunday Yohan Ramirez (R) 1.2 IP, 28p Tuesday Dillon Tate (R) 1.1 IP, 21p Monday Jacob Webb (R) 0.1 IP, 15p Wednesday Probably Available Yennier Cano (R) 1.0 IP, 20p Wednesday, 1.2 IP, 20p Monday; 1.1 IP, 22p Sunday

Totally closing my eyes and throwing darts here with less than 30 seconds thought: Griffey Jr, A-Rod, Olerud, Alvin Davis

9/9, 54, 7 Orioles. A little hack for under 3.00 ERA is there is no minimum inning requirement so if you can think of a good reliever who played for a team, chances are they had one year where their ERA was under 3. I filled two spots with Orioles using that. Couldn't come up with Orioles off the top of my head for two Twin spots, so rather than guess and risk a 9/9, I just put two obvious answers that wound up giving me 45 of my 54 rarity points.

I did it again! 9/9, all played for the Orioles. 36 points.

Where are you getting this "world would end" shtick? I said I felt Hays was the correct move, nothing more. On the other hand, I think the most drastic "world ending" came from people who opposed the move and said it was horrible. If any side in this argument was using hyperbolic "the world is ending" kind of language, I think it was the people opposed to the move, not any of the people in favor of it.

Did it ever once occur to you that maybe one reason O'Hearn is hot is because he is being used by Hyde in situations where he can excel... vs RH pitchers. Maybe the fact that 98% of his plate appearances have come vs righties is PART of the reason he is hot. Using him almost exclusively vs RH is working, and it is working damn well. Maybe it would be a bad idea to change it.

Padres place Yu Darvish on the IL and call up Logan Gillaspie.

We were talking about platooning and LH/RH matchups. Earl did it all the time. Just like Hyde does.

Hyde managed like that all last year and won 101 games. But it didn't "work", according to you. Earl Weaver managed like that for decades and is in the Hall of Fame. But it didn't "work", according to you.

Why not? Against lefties over their careers Hays has an OPS that is 200 points higher. Yes, he has been in a slump. A bad one. Players are in slumps. Until they come out of them. You are vastly overreacting to 40 at bats. I'm glad our manager doesn't.

Hot hand = smaller sample size = less valid in determining who will succeed than long term performance (obviously weighted for more recent, but not to the point of considering 39 at bats the past 3 weeks more valid than 500 last year.